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CollectorsCloud Collectors Administration Guide

Navigate the Cloud Collectors UI

The Cloud Collectors service includes three tabs, Overview, Collectors, and Accounts. The functionality available from each tab is described below.

Overview Tab

This tab lists all of the cloud collectors that you configured in your environment. The list can be filtered by vendor and by status. You can use the search field to navigate to a specific collector.

On the Overview tab, you can click the name of a specific collector to open a page that displays collector details. You can also click New Collector to navigate to the Collectors tab where you can create a new cloud collector.

The Overview tab includes the following information for each cloud collector:

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  • Type – Displays the name of the vendor.

  • Name – Displays the name of the collector that you create and specify a name for. Click the name of the Cloud Collector to view the collector details such as status, volume received, and error messages with recommended action. For more information, see Collector Details Pane.

  • Volume in the Last Day – Displays the volume of data collected by the collector last day.

  • Last Log Received – Displays the time when the log was last received.

  • Status – Displays the status of the installed collector instance to indicate whether the collector is running, stopped, or in error state.

  • All Vendors – Provides options to filter records based on vendors.

  • All Status – Provides options to filter records based on status of the installed cloud collector status.

Collector Details Pane

The collector details pane displays status, volume of the log received, and error messages with details such as error type, error code, and recommended action. For more information about error messages, see Troubleshooting Cloud Collectors.

The graph displays a volume of logs ingested within a specific time period such as last day, in the last week, or within one month, or within three months.

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Collectors Tab

The Collectors tab lists all the supported cloud collectors that you can install in your environment. You can filter the list by name, vendors, and by collectors. You can use the search field to navigate to a specific collector.

Click the tile for the vendor for which you want to create a cloud collector instance. After you install a collector instance or more collector instances, the tile displays number of instances installed.

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Accounts Tab

The Accounts tab lists all shareable accounts that you created for cloud collectors in your environment. The account can be reused across one or more cloud collectors of the same type. The shareable accounts help streamline the onboarding of your cloud collectors. If your credentials ever change you can easily update them and then test the connection for all collectors simultaneously.

Currently only AWS accounts are shareable.

On the Accounts tab, you can filter and sort the accounts by Vendor, Account Name, Collectors, and Status. You can also use the search to quickly locate a specific account.

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Note

With read-only access you can only view the details of cloud collector instances and cannot create, edit, and delete a cloud collector instance. Having read-only access also restrains you from creating an account, testing a connection, editing details, and saving changes.